Human - Agent - Robot

Thinking about Autonomy Strictly speaking, though, the term “autonomous system” is a misnomer. Autonomy is not a property of a system, but rather the result of an interaction between the system, the task, and the situation. No system—and, for that matter, no person—can perform autonomously in every task and situation. On the other hand, even the simplest machine can function autonomously if the task and context are suffi ciently constrained. Much of the early research on autonomous systems was motivated by situations in which autonomous systems had to “replace” human participation, thus minimizing the need for considering the human aspects of such solutions. For example, one of the earliest high-consequence applications of sophisticated agent technologies was in NASA’s Remote Agent Architecture (RAA), Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition